strangler fig
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Noun
[edit]strangler fig (plural strangler figs)
- Any of a number of kinds of figs (genus Ficus) that sprout on branches of other trees and crowd them out as they mature.
Hyponyms
[edit]- (fig that strangles trees): Ficus altissima, Ficus aurea (Florida strangler fig), Ficus benghalensis, Ficus benjamina, Ficus burtt-davyi, Ficus citrifolia, Ficus craterostoma, Ficus tinctoria, Ficus macrophylla, Ficus obliqua, Ficus virens, Ficus watkinsiana, Ficus henneana
Translations
[edit]fig tree
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References
[edit]strangler fig on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Ficus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Ficus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons